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Announcing the agenda for TechCrunch Disrupt 2022

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Disrupt is turning 12 years old. And in the name of coming back bigger and better than ever, the Disrupt Startup Battlefield has grown by 10x. This year, we’re curating 200 companies for you to check out and meet for the first time in the Expo Hall, with the top 20 gracing the Disrupt stage to launch their wares.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Edtech VC survey, 5 founder mistakes, fintech liquidity, more

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Edtech needs to reach beyond underfunded public school systems to become more sustainable, which is why more investors and founders are focusing on lifelong learning. Jan Lynn-Matern , founder and partner, Emerge Education (a leading edtech seed fund in Europe with portfolio companies like Aula, Unibuddy and BibliU).

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Armed with experience, insurtech MGAs are paving the way for insurtech 2.0

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Entrepreneurs saw this as an opportunity to disrupt incumbents, and soon there were lofty claims that everything about the industry was about to change. Many like to refute the underlying disruption by pointing to public valuations of insurtech firms, some of which are down as much as 85%-90%.

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Insurgent UK broadband startup Cuckoo Internet raises $6M round led by RTP Global, with JamJar Investments

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Other individual investors in the round included former executives of Monzo and Stripe, Cuckoo’s pitch is that it has a simple broadband offering, suppling a single 67 Mb/s fibre deal on a monthly rolling contract with “no hidden fees,” it says. ” Cuckoo Internet closes seed funding to disrupt UK broadband market.

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The Nubank EC-1

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Brazil’s banking system is a massive market, and one ill-served by incumbents. Yet, it’s a startup with a CEO and co-founder who isn’t Brazilian, didn’t speak the local language of Portuguese, hadn’t started a company before, and didn’t really know a lot about banking to begin with. and for credit card indebtedness it was 272.42%.”

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AI-powered supply chain startup Pando lands $30M investment

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CEO and founder Nitin Jayakrishnan says that the new capital will be put toward expanding Pando’s global sales, marketing and delivery capabilities. This, along with the platform’s emphasis on no-code capabilities, differentiates Pando from incumbents like SAP, Oracle, Blue Yonder and E2Open, Jayakrishnan asserts.

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Prezent.ai secures $20M to gamify deck presentations

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When it comes to presentation creation, PowerPoint and Keynote remain the de facto tools by incumbent advantage. But this hasn’t stopped startups from trying to disrupt the status quo. Besides Prezi, there’s Pitch , a deck creation suite from the founders of Wunderlist.